Gør en vinterdag til en sommerdag / Making a winter day to a summer day.

(Dansk version ligger nedenunder den Engelske)

Making a vinter day into a summer day…

Why worrying if it´ll snow next week, when the pansies are flowering right now in the hanging pots alon King´s Road? However, enjoy your "Now"! Enjoy your
spring temperatures and the sun while you have it. In Denmark we´ve frosty weather with snow, rain, wind, which we call "winter" .

So this weather here is NOT cold.

It is NOT winter here in London.

It
is SPRINGTIME.

Now you know.

This year it happened to be the London Art Biennale, which had the pleasure of attending
this habbit of mine. If I don´t use the “make-your-winter-days- into-summer- days –trick”, I´ll be crawling around on all four paws, when everybody else are having fun, especially in situations where you MUST BE ON THE TOP.

But then you´ve got to fix an order of priority about what you spend your energy on and push everything else aside for primarily being able to be where you´re
expected to be present and during the hours you´re expected to be there.

Therefore, it affected a booked trip to see the musical “Lion King” and
an exiting fotoshoot with the photographer Kahled Abdul-Dahal in the streets of London.

I was primarily available
at the event, London Art Biennale 2015, which took me to London this time,.. – in my self-disciplined universe there is no mercy: Either you pull yourself together,
eat a PANODIL, put on your highheeled shoes, a nice dress, give people a smile and do your best being 100% there,- or you could just as well not participate. I know
that it´s a modern sales trick among artists to expose their fragility and more or less life- threatening illnesses, but I´m not screwed together in that way. Self- criticism and a certain standard for my look in very public spaces is my mark, everything else is allowed in my workshops.

But my mornings in London were terrible. I dragged myself out of bed and had to pull myself together in order to go to the exhibition each day.

When it comes to the sale, it doesn´t work very well, when you bring something which is NOT for sale, such as a piece of museum artwork ("Sherlock Holmes Portrait "with showcase). But the exhibition´s smallest man had it with the ladies, while the male visitors preferred the his showcase and exhibition´sundisputed cheeky devil, the lady on my painting “Nude in the 21st Century1”, so we were payed visits from
a couple of “bott”- men and a famous girl photographer. Well done, she (I) turns 50 this summer. It was very entertaining to take care of her at the exhibition. For example I got the question:

”Why did you forget to paint the reflections in the vindows, now we can´t see all the exiting things on the front of her body?”

Answer: “I didn´t forget it. There is a reflection in that window right behind her, (pointing) the one her body is covering, that´s why you can´t see it”.

Or what about this one:

”Why did you put on a straight up-down dress, now we can´t see if the self-portrait
looks like you?”

Answer: ”Because my Catwoman costume is in the laundry”.

503
compliments during 5 days is a record for my part.

My husband got an offer on 42 camels for me, ….. – well, at least the course had went double up since last time 3 years ago
where the bid were on 23 camels.

But also a lot of other people came in order to talk to me about the new kind of nudity and fragility that I think has appeared
in the 21st century which we haven´t had before. Very exiting different points of views.

Concerning the painting: ”Nude in the 21st Century1” is still for sale. Somebody out there
might stamped me as a bad seller, price too high, or even a talentless artist never selling anything, a. s. o.

In stead the reason is to find in the completely opposite
part of the human thought universe:

I create art within several different artistically medias on the same high level, I write shortstries, poetry, compose music, lyrics, a.s.o.,
but like everybody else I´ve only 24 hours in a day, therefore I´ve only few artworks in progress which are not orders. As I´m also a perfectionist, it takes me a long time to create them, because I´m also experimenting with new
media and tecniques. So only rarely, I´m finishing an available artwork. It also gives me a very small production within each kind of art media. But small artworks and a small production within each of them doesn´t mean that you´re a
small ungifted artist or that you´re untidy with your works. Not, when your low numbered propduction is dued to a high number of art media on that art level of international recognizing where I´m working. I´ve reached that multi-faceted
artistically level BECAUSE I´m a perfectionist and not incidentally or for any other reasons than the skills I´m born with , and then hard work.

I hate to do things
over and over again. Then rather do them right the first time and spend the needed time on the project. ´Cause if they´re not perfect and done with 100 % sustained diligence, when yu´ve finished the artwork, you´re waisting your time
and your work is not finished in my opinion. Available = free of orders for entry to juries. So when it happens that I finish a new available artwork, I offen put it uo for entry for at least 2 juried exhibitions if possible. My self-portrait,
the painting, ”Nude inthe 21st Century1”, which illustrates my theory about a new kind of fragility and nudity has appeared in this century, was send of for entry to the London Art Biennale 2015, and to be honest I didn´t count on it to be
let through that selection, so I turned it in for another jury, too. per digital entry....- and in this case the challenge for an interested buyer appears:

Artwork has gone through step 1 of a selection, the digital entry in another selection progess, and therefore it has to be delivered physically for further selection process somewhere in DK. after the London Art Biennale. If
it passes through this selection process it has to be exhibited at a museum through the summer 2015 and maybe one museum exhibition in another country in the autumn... – and honestly: Who wants to buy a painting which you in "worst case" have to wait
for 8 months to get?.....

I´ll tell you: Only people who want the opportunity to do a really good bargain do that kind of deals, because if
an artwork that size has been selected for a biennale and several other juried international exhibitions, maybe even selected museum exhibition, you´ve done a good deal on buying it now for 500 GBP, even though it´s the first special painting
of something, it´ll be art on high levelled recognition, when the buyer recieves it. A rare level and a rare artwork, no matter the cirkumstances during creation, artist education or theme.

At the biennale there were several potential buyers for this artwork. None of them wanted to negotiate the prize down. All of them jumped out of the deal, because of those certain "happy" circumstances,
which for them meant that they couldn´t bring the artwork home at once. So these were my considerations, just before I travelled to the biennale:

- should one sell the painting now and miss the opportunities for selection for a couple of juried museum exhibitions?

- or should one aim to a patient customer showing up, who would
agree to these circumstances and buy an top-recognized artwork with a unik history and a chance of getting it 3 x as recognized as it is now for a good price by buying it now and getting it later? …

- What to do?

Not everyday as an artist you get the opportunity to get your artworks juried through to museum exhibition in DK, which is the highest level of recognision you can get, and especially not as a female artist. After
my participation at the London Art Biennale where a lot of people came to discuss my theory about a new kind of nudity, I belive that this artwork "Nude in the 21st century1" has what it takes to go through a vast number of international selections, also
if it doesn´t pass this actual mentioned one in DK. Because the problems it illustrates, are so radical in our contemporary world society that the theme will be more and more relevant . Therefore, I chose
to hold on and bring the painting with me back to DK for further selection process, and therefore the painting allready by delevery in Chelsea Old Town Hall had the next jury registration number written on the back of the frame, ´cause then we could pack it in the Hall in London and bring it directly to the next entry after the biennale without opening the emballage. But the painting is still for sale, and I can only tell you one thing:

If this artwork goes through selection for 1-2 juried museums exhibitions or other juried exhibitions after the London Art biennale, price can only go one way:

Up!

Right now it´s for sale for 500GBP with the mentioned conditions, which is written in
a contract, where the buyer pays half now and half by delivery. Buyer will be exemted for all responsibility, shipping expenses and artwork will be insuranced by me / the eventually curators
through the hole process until the buyer recieves it. The buyer can get his money back if artwork get damaged during this process which in "worst case secnaria" can take up to 8 months and he or she for the damage reason no longer wants it.

If you are still interested in a deal on these conditions, then write to me under this web-site´s menu item "Kontakt / Contact". I´m
a discrete person so none of the infomations you write in the fields will be published at this website when you send your meassage to me.

Best wishes ... - and remember to enjoy your springtime here in London.

Lisbet
Lark,

Chelsea / Kensington, Jan 26th 2015.

Jan 28th 2015: Artwork "Nude in the 21st Century1" has been delivered to selection process for a new juried exhibition. Crossing my fingers and toes...

Lisbet Lark, DK

Feb: 3rd 2015: My 3 big abstract paintings "Det Store Maske fald1", "Det Store maskefald2" and "Det Store Maskefald3" which
I´ve written short stories over, is now booked by a German curator for a gallery exhibition in Berlin in March 14th. - April 4th this year featuring artworks from the 15 most interesting artists in Europe in 2015. More information later. Thanks
for selection and for contacting me.